Abstract
Crack-tip-opening displacement (CTOD) and fatigue-crack growth tests were conducted for several line pipe steels with uniaxial tensile or compressive prestrain, εpr. Critical CTOD decreased with increasing |εpr|. The reduction of critical CTOD due to prestrain was dependent on the ductile-brittle transition temperature of the steels without prestrain. A few percent of εpr induced the ductile-brittle transition for the steels with a higher transition temperature. The compressive εpr had larger effects on both reduction of critical CTOD and strain induced ductile-brittle transition than the tensile εpr. Only the high compressive εpr accelerated both fatigue crack initiation and growth, and no obvious effect of the tensile εpr on the fatigue properties was observed.
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